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Hairy-legged Vampire Bat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Hairy-legged Vampire Bat ( Diphylla ecaudata ) is one of three species of vampire bat. Despite connotations of vampires, it mainly feeds on the blood of birds. This vampire bat lives mainly in...
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Vampire bat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Vampire bats are bats whose food source is blood, a dietary trait called hematophagy. There are three bat species that feed solely on blood: the Common vampire bat ( Desmodus rotundus ), the Hairy-...
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They also have a total of 26 teeth, more than other vampire bat species. Hairy-legged vampire bats have highly modified upper incisors. These incisors are larger than the canines and occlude against each other so that they are continuously sharpened to a very fine edge.
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Hairy-legged Vampire; : Family Phyllostomidae : Diphylla ecaudata Spix ... Hairy-legged Vampire (Diphylla ecaudata). Photo by Merlin D. Tuttle, Bat Conservation International.
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While Common Vampire Bats may feed on the blood of mammals or birds, the White-winged Vampire Bat and the Hairy-legged Vampire Bat are thought to prefer bird blood.
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(If you think Hairy-Legged is a silly name, it could just as easily have been the Chicken Vampire Bat. "Go lock up the hen house Ma, the bats are comin'!" Heh heh. So that's where Vampire Chicken comes from. Okay, back to the writeup).
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Information about the Hairy-legged Vampire Bat (Diphylla ecaudata), a species found in the State of Texas ... Refer to the online version of The Mammals of Texas for additional details on the Hairy-legged Vampire.
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01/19/98 NAME - Hairy-legged vampire bat FAMILY - Phyllostomidae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Diphylla ecaudata REFERENCES - 1, 2, 3 and 6 National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status Reference Rare: low density, unlikely to be seen, few localities 4 Uncommon: occur at low density in proper habitat.
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